REBECCA STEVENSON: Tourism Holdings’ great Kiwi plan for profitability

REBECCA STEVENSON: Tourism Holdings’ great Kiwi plan for profitability
Rebecca Stevenson
There are few companies, other than perhaps Air New Zealand, which have been as dramatically hit by border closures as Tourism Holdings.Its business, up until covid-19, would reliably cash-in on the rising number of international tourists visiting our shores. It could hire out a Maui or Britz campervan and keep clipping the ticket as tourists then visited its cave experience at Waitomo.It had the lower and younger end of the market covered with Kiwi Experience. And it was making inroads further afield, expanding into the United States and Unite...

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